Previous seminars |
17-12-2010 | Governing the Dead
Within international studies, the dead would seem to make up an exotic but marginal subject of research and policy analysis.
Still Alive is a documentary that follows the lives of former gang members in Guatemala over a five-year period as they join an art collective amidst a climate of intense violence, displacement and a conflict rooted in a 36-year long civil war.
Not many decades ago, citizens who left their motherland due to conflict, political disagreement or in search of a brighter future were considered traitors by their compatriots and the state.
20-11-2009 | Remittances, Migration and the Financial Crisis
One of the most direct ways in which migrants and refugees influence their countries of origin is through the sending of remittances. On a global scale, remittances exceed overseas development assistance and equal foreign direct investments.
Over the last 5-10 years, it has generally been assumed that international migration contributes to social and economic development in migrant sending countries in the developing world.
18-05-2009 | Bringing Culture Back in: Social Remittances and Local Practices in the Migration-Development Nexus
At this seminar, two of the leading scholars in transnational migration, Peggy Levitt and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, challenge the mainstream perception of migration and development, arguing that culture must be brought back in, and a transnational social field perspective must be applied.
Diaspora organizations are often praised as central development actors, perceived to bridge the gap between foreign donors and the local population.
02-03-2009 | From Brain Drain to Brain Gain? Sending Country Perspectives on Skilled Migration and Development
Highly skilled migration from developing to Western countries is often conceptualised as brain drain and as detrimental for development. However, recent research and policy development challenges mainstream assumptions of brain drain, insisting that skilled migration is a more complex phenomenon.
10-12-2008 | Migration and Climate Change
Climate change will force people to flee – current estimates of the number of displaced range from 25 million to one billion by the year 2050. DIIS seminar discusses the topic of climate change and displacement.
Hvorfor høres forskernes stemmer sjældent? Hvordan bliver feltarbejde til en god historie i primetime? Og hvilke dilemmaer og muligheder rejser dokumentarfilm som medie? På seminaret vil antropolog Sine Plambech og filminstruktør Janus Metz vise deres nye film Fra Thy til Thailand, som er opfølger til den prisbelønnede dokumentar Fra Thailand til Thy, der blev vist på DR1 i januar 2008.
Since the turn of the millennium, the issue of migration and development has regained substantial attention among both practitioners and researchers. Some even refer to this as the migration-development mantra.
A seminar under the Migration Thursday series ‘Europe’s New Migration Challenges’ with Christina Boswell and Jørgen Carling
A seminar under the Migration Thursday series ‘Europe’s New Migration Challenges’ with Ruud Koopmans, Ulf Hedetoft and Adrian Favell
05-10-2006 | Migration and Labour Markets in the New Europe
A seminar in the 'Migration Thursday' series with Adrian Favell and Philip Muus
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